The court could uphold a ban, but that would require over turning two second amendment decisions made by the very same court. Good luck with that.

HarryBackside on December 21, 2012 at 11:32 AM

Nah. A lib SCOTUS just needs to ignore. The media outside our “bubble” is not going to bring up Heller or any other decision that doesn’t work their way.

Take a look at it this way: A similar group of people who argued that companies that produce pornography had a “first amendment right” thought it was ludicrous that other companies enjoyed a similar right and that deciding so “overturned 100 years of jurisprudence” (except when such a right applied to the commerce of pornography).

True, but the court didn’t have to wipe out two of their previous decisions on the Obamacare ruling. In order for the court to uphold an assault weapons ban, they would have to over rule the same courts ruling in Heller and the Chicago case.

The reason Newtown works for the Libs is that its part of the safe, suburban, soccer-mom world. The fact that 400+ people have been shot in Chicago, a city with some of the toughest gun laws in the country, is ignored because its the inner city and everyone expects it. No one on the left is willing to stand up and say “why?”

clippermiami on December 21, 2012 at 11:27 AM

I read an article about that same thing. Because Newtown was 95% white and represented a Norman Rockwell painting and a slice out of 1950s Americana, the libs get alot more mileage out of it. The public has become desensitized to Chicago so the media doesn’t care about the kids killed there.